Schulze-Haugen has been the Deputy Director for NOS’ National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) since October 2018.
Prior to coming to NCCOS, Schulze-Haugen had been the Chief of the Highly Migratory Species Management Division, in NMFS’ Office of Sustainable Fisheries, since 2005.
Schulze-Haugen received her Masters of Science in Fishery Biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied predator-prey interactions in the Connecticut River estuary. Schulze-Haugen graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and English.